Certainly I was running around like a one-armed paper hanger when playing solo. Being able to assign an AI officer to the more routine stations will be very helpful even for multiplayer crews.
Unlike in SH, the periscope doesn't have an azimuth readout within the optics, and there's no way to rotate the periscope without your eye to it, so it's quite hard to visually locate a contact detected by other means.
But once the target was in sight, I was able to set up a range, then point the scope just *ahead* of the target's actual position, so that by the time I could check the TDC's generated bearing, it would be on target again. Otherwise the lag between taking the bearing and checking/entering it on the TDC would cause the fish to miss astern.
It is perhaps not a coincidence that I did *very* well at Maths at school.
